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Author Wilkinson, J.A.
Title The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: A discourse analysis Type
Year 2007 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nurse practitioners; History of nursing
Abstract The purpose of this research has been to trace the development of the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand. Using a discourse analytical approach informed by the work of Michel Foucault, the study foregrounds the discourses that have constructed the nurse practitioner role within the New Zealand social and political context. The author suggests that discourses of nursing and of medicine have established systems of disciplinary practices that produce nurses and physicians within defined role boundaries, not because of legislation, but because discourse has constructed certain rules. The nurse practitioner role transcends those boundaries and offers the possibility of a new and potentially more liberating identity for nurses and nursing. A plural approach of both textuality and discursivity was used to guide the analysis of texts chosen from published literature and from nine interviews conducted with individuals who have been influential in the unfolding of the nurse practitioner role. Both professionally and industrially and in academic and regulatory terms dating back to the Nurses Registration Act, 1901, the political discourses and disciplinary practices serving to position nurses in the health care sector and to represent nursing are examined. The play of these forces has created an interstice from which the nurse practitioner role in New Zealand could emerge. In combination with a new state regime of primary health care, the notion of an autonomous nursing profession in both practice and regulation has challenged medicine's traditional right to surveillance of nursing practice. Through a kind of regulated freedom, the availability of assessment, diagnostic and prescribing practices within a nursing discourse signals a radical shift in how nursing can be represented. The author concludes that the nurse practitioner polemic has revolutionised the nursing subject, and may in turn lead to a qualitatively different health service.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 517 Serial 503
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Author Neville, S.J.
Title Delirium in the older adult: A critical gerontological approach Type
Year Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Geriatric nursing; Older people
Abstract The purpose of this thesis has been to explore the discursive production of delirium in people over the age of 65 years. The philosophical approaches underpinning the study were derived from the field of critical gerontology, postmodernism and the utilisation of a Foucauldian understanding of discourse and power/knowledge. Data sources included published documents on delirium, interviews with people over the age of 65 years who had been delirious (as well as their clinical notes), family members, registered nurses and a doctor. Textual analysis revealed the presence of two contesting and contradictory discourses that impacted on being an older person who had delirium. These were identified as the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and a personal discourse of delirium. The discourse of delirium as a syndrome is underpinned by the biomedicalisation of the ageing process. This process utilises scientific methods as the foundation from which to understand, research and provide a health service to older people with delirium. Any personal perspectives on delirium are rendered unimportant and relegated to marginalised positions. Nursing through its vicarious relationship to medicine is interpellated into deploying the discourse of delirium as a syndrome and has largely ignored the personal dimensions associated with this phenomenon. Consequently, the older delirious 'body' is known and inscribed as unruly, problematic, physically unwell, cognitively impaired and at risk. Conversely, a personal discourse of delirium privileges the individual narratives of people who have been delirious and provides a different perspective of delirium. The deployment of a personal discourse of delirium offers another position that views this group of older people as bringing to the health care setting a rich tapestry of life experiences that are more than a cluster of signs and symptoms. It is these varied life experiences that need to be included as a legitimate source of knowledge about delirium. This thesis demonstrates how nursing needs to espouse a critical gerontological position when working with older people who have delirium. Critical gerontology provides nurses with the theoretical tools to challenge the status quo and uncover the multiple, varied, contradictory and complex representations of delirium in older people.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 598 Serial 584
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Author Jacobs, S.
Title Advanced nursing practice and the nurse practitioner: New Zealand nursing's professional project in the late 20th century Type
Year 2005 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nurse practitioners; History; Policy; Leadership; Advanced nursing practice
Abstract This thesis examines the forces influencing the development of contemporary advanced nursing practice in New Zealand. It begins with an historical approach to explore the various meanings of advanced nursing practice from the late 1800s through the first years of the 21st century. Seven historical understandings of the meaning of 'advanced' nursing practice emerge. The author's analysis of the broad scope of New Zealand nursing history, including a case study of the development and implementation of the nurse practitioner, draws on theoretical perspectives from sociology, political science, and nursing. She develops a “framework of critical factors for nursing to take into account when considering how to ensure the profession is able to deliver on its great potential to improve the health of New Zealand communities”. Examining the work of a range of nursing leaders, past and present, and drawing on the work of political scientist, John Kingdon, the author describes the work of several nurses as “policy entrepreneurship.”
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 671
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Author Manning, E.
Title Work-role transition: From staff nurse to clinical nurse educator Type
Year 2006 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Teaching methods
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 732
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Author Blackie, S.A.H.
Title Women, work, study and health: The experience of nurses engaged in paid work and further education Type
Year 2001 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Parents and caregivers; Nursing; Education
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 789
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Author Morrison-Ngatai, E.
Title Mai i muri ka haere whakahaere: Maori woman in mental health nursing Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Mental health; Maori; Female; Psychiatric Nursing
Abstract Contents: Chapter 1 Kupu whakataki – introduction; Chapter 2 Raranga mohiotanga – literature review; Chapter 3 To te wahine mana tuku iho – theoretical framework; Chapter 4 Tahuri ki te rangahau – research methodology; Chapter 5 Whakaaturanga whakaoho – beginnings; Chapter 6 Kia pakari – positioning and contesting; Chapter 7 E ara ki runga wahine toa – standing and enduring; Chapter 8 Kua takoto te whariki.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 828
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Author Seccombe, J.
Title Nursing students and people with disabilities: Changing curriculum, changing attitudes? Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Students; People with disabilities
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 832
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Author Baur, P.
Title Patients who present to the emergency department but do not wait: An exploratory study Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Emergency nursing; Hospitals
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 849
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Author Richardson, F.I.
Title What is it like to teach cultural safety in a New Zealand nursing education programme? Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library; NZNO Library
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Keywords Cultural safety; Nursing; Education; Transcultural nursing; Maori
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 872
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Author Marshall, D.C.
Title The preceptor's role in student evaluation: An investigation Type
Year 2000 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Preceptorship; Students; Teaching methods
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 906
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Author Davenport, F.A.
Title Dying to know: A qualitative study exploring nurses' education in caring for the dying Type
Year 2004 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Terminal care
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1111
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Author Hardcastle, J.
Title What is the potential of distance education for learning and practice development in critical care nursing in the South Island of New Zealand? Type
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Intensive care nursing; Nursing; Education
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1116
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Author Scott, S.; Johnson, Y.; Caughley, B.
Title An evaluation of the new graduate orientation programme: Introduced at Capital Coast District Health Board's Wellington Hospital in March 1998 Type Report
Year 2003 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords New graduate nurses; Hospitals
Abstract This report presents a longitudinal research study which evaluated the effectiveness of the twelve months New Graduate Orientation Programme introduced at Capital Coast District Health Board's Wellington Hospital in March 1998. The programme was implemented to assist new nursing graduate's transition into the role of registered nurse. The evaluation project took place over a three-year period. Three annual intakes of new graduates enrolled in the New Graduate Orientation Programme were surveyed by questionnaire on their completion of the programme.
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1156
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Author Hylton, J.A.
Title Enrolled nurse transition to degree level study based at a rural satellite campus Type
Year 2002 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Keywords Nursing; Education; Enrolled nurses
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Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ Serial 1248
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Author Thomson, M.; Kinross, D.N.J.; Chick, D.N.P.; Corry, M.F.; Dowland, J.
Title People in hospital: a surgical ward Type
Year 1977 Publication Abbreviated Journal Massey University Library
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Abstract A study of work patterns on a surgical ward
Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 5 Serial 5
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